Teen shot in head is in critical condition

By Drew Joseph :
July 17, 2013
: Updated: July 17, 2013 9:32pm

San Antonio police investigate a crime scene in a parking lot near the intersection of East Sunshine and Bandera road Wednesday July 17, 2013. Sergeant Steve Priore said a teenage male in the back seat of a grey four door sedan was shot around 5:50 a.m. and was taken to University Hospital in critical condition. Priore said there were four juveniles in the car and there was an apparent bullet hole in the back passenger window. The investigation is ongoing.

Photo By John Davenport / San Antonio Express-News

San Antonio police investigate a crime scene in a parking lot near Bandera Road at East Sunshine Drive, where a group of teens drove after one of them was shot in the head at a nearby apartment complex.

Photo By JOHN DAVENPORT/SAN ANTONIO EXPRESS-NEWS

San Antonio police investigate a crime scene in a parking lot near the intersection of East Sunshine and Bandera road Wednesday July 17, 2013. Sergeant Steve Priore said a teenage male in the back seat of a grey four door sedan was shot around 5:50 a.m. and was taken to University Hospital in critical condition. Priore said there were four juveniles in the car and there was an apparent bullet hole in the back passenger window. The investigation is ongoing.

Photo By JOHN DAVENPORT/SAN ANTONIO EXPRESS-NEWS

San Antonio police investigate a crime scene in a parking lot near the intersection of East Sunshine and Bandera road Wednesday July 17, 2013. Sergeant Steve Priore said a teenage male in the back seat of a grey four door sedan was shot around 5:50 a.m. and was taken to University Hospital in critical condition. Priore said there were four juveniles in the car and there was an apparent bullet hole in the back passenger window. The investigation is ongoing.

Photo By JOHN DAVENPORT/SAN ANTONIO EXPRESS-NEWS

San Antonio police investigate a crime scene in a parking lot near the intersection of East Sunshine and Bandera road Wednesday July 17, 2013. Sergeant Steve Priore said a teenage male in the back seat of a grey four door sedan was shot around 5:50 a.m. and was taken to University Hospital in critical condition. Priore said there were four juveniles in the car and there was an apparent bullet hole in the back passenger window. The investigation is ongoing.

A teenage boy who was shot in the head Wednesday morning while riding in a car has been identified as 15-year-old Jeremy Trevino, police said.

San Antonio police Sgt. Steve Priore said four teenage boys were driving in the 300 block of West Cheryl Drive on the Northwest Side. One went to a nearby apartment building to see his girlfriend while the others stayed in the car.

Priore said one of the boys in the car called the one visiting his girlfriend and said they were ready to leave. While they waited, they drove around the complex.

Although Priore said at the scene that the boys were still waiting for their friend, a police report released later Wednesday said they had picked up the boy who was visiting the apartment.

About 5:45 a.m., a shot was fired and the bullet pierced one of the car's side windows and struck Trevino, who was in the back seat, according to police.

Trevino was taken to University Hospital, where his condition was listed as critical. The other three, whose identities were not released, were interviewed by police. Priore said police do not know the origin of the bullet.

Mario Rodriguez, Trevino's half brother, said it was not like Trevino to stay out late.

Rodriguez said he wakes up every day at 6 a.m. and visits Trevino's room. But on Wednesday, Trevino was not there.

“Today, I just had that feeling something was wrong,” said Rodriguez, 24. “I couldn't even breathe.”

Trevino loves sports and is going into his sophomore year at Marshall High School, Rodriguez said. He plays football, basketball and baseball and is good with numbers and statistics.